These are source from another blog, but that blog takes some time to load hence I have copied the original here. He entitles it "Remember when governments were stupid rather than nasty".

“Political suicide can end a career.”- John Major“Suicide is a real threat to health.”- Virginia Bottomley“Anyone would think we were living on some island somewhere.”- George Walden“It’s not the future I’m talking about, I’m talking about tomorrow.”- John Gummer“The trend in the rise in unemployment is downward.”- Gillian Shepherd“The more important things are more important than the less importantthings.”- Stephen Dorrell“When the IRA plant such bombs, it proves they can scare people, itproves they can kill people, it proves nothing.”- Peter Bottomley“We said zero, and I think any statistician will tell you that… zeromust mean plus or minus a few.”- William Waldegrave“Who Sadam Hussein kills, dies.”- Jeffrey Archer“There’s no smoke without mud being flung around.”- Edwina Currie“I will never forget the 1981, or was it 1982? honours list.”- Julian Critchley“All those people who say that there will never be a Single EuropeanCurrency are trying to forecast history.”- Kenneth Clark“The British public sees with blinding clarity.”- Michael Heseltine“You know what they say, don’t get mad, get angry.”- Edwina Currie“We are not wholly an island, except geographically.”- John Major

Of course, we shouldn't confuse these Tories from the Tories that John Hemming did a deal with in order to secure a position of Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council in alliance with the Tories for... John Hemming.

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